Hello all users of Pokemon Showdown, as we are ending up finishing the beta's of multiple older generations I have been asked to collect the sprites, which is actually a lot of work. Thus I'm asking anyone to help out collecting every sprite so that we can have all the older sprites ready and available. The sooner this is done the sooner we can play the old gens they way they ought to look.
There are a few requirements the sprites will need so read this carefully. All the sprites must:
1. Be 96 x 96 pixels.
2. Must have a transparent background.
3. Front sprites must be centered, and back sprites must be centered horizontally and aligned at the bottom of the canvas
4. File format must be png.
5. Must be saved as the name of the Pokemon so bulbasaur.png or castform-rainy.png naming conventions (see here for reference: http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/bw/ )
6. Images must be taken from the smogon site, or a site that has them as freely available. Here are the sources I recommend:
-Smogon Sprites: http://www.smogon.com/download/sprites/ (ours are numbered and not named sadly)
-Veekun Downloads: http://veekun.com/dex/downloads
-Cave of Dragonflies: http://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites.aspx (HIGHLY HIGHLY recommended due to having named saves of rs-hgss, however no backs for some)
7. Once a set is done please put them all in a zip/rar and upload it using google docs, dropbox, or some other online service so I can mass download and collect everything.
To make this much easier I have created a chart to help us organize: You can find it here
In the chart you can reserve mons in groups of 50 each, which makes organization relatively easy to perform. If you have alternate forms in your sections refer to the sprites already on PS for BW ( http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/bw/ ) and if it isn't there you probably won't need it.
Helping with this is really easy, just a bit time consuming, that being said I've written up how I feel is the easiest way to make this all happen. Just follow this image guide here:
If you have any questions before helping out do feel free to ask them here!
There are a few requirements the sprites will need so read this carefully. All the sprites must:
1. Be 96 x 96 pixels.
2. Must have a transparent background.
3. Front sprites must be centered, and back sprites must be centered horizontally and aligned at the bottom of the canvas
4. File format must be png.
5. Must be saved as the name of the Pokemon so bulbasaur.png or castform-rainy.png naming conventions (see here for reference: http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/bw/ )
6. Images must be taken from the smogon site, or a site that has them as freely available. Here are the sources I recommend:
-Smogon Sprites: http://www.smogon.com/download/sprites/ (ours are numbered and not named sadly)
-Veekun Downloads: http://veekun.com/dex/downloads
-Cave of Dragonflies: http://www.dragonflycave.com/sprites.aspx (HIGHLY HIGHLY recommended due to having named saves of rs-hgss, however no backs for some)
7. Once a set is done please put them all in a zip/rar and upload it using google docs, dropbox, or some other online service so I can mass download and collect everything.
To make this much easier I have created a chart to help us organize: You can find it here
In the chart you can reserve mons in groups of 50 each, which makes organization relatively easy to perform. If you have alternate forms in your sections refer to the sprites already on PS for BW ( http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/bw/ ) and if it isn't there you probably won't need it.
Helping with this is really easy, just a bit time consuming, that being said I've written up how I feel is the easiest way to make this all happen. Just follow this image guide here:
This guide will be using paint.net which you can find at http://www.getpaint.net/ everything here can also correspond to photoshop if you have that.
1. Grab the sprites you are using and put them all in a separate folder. For the purposes of this tutorial I am doing GSC: 250-300 which is literally just Celebi.
2. With paint.net open in one side drag and drop the file to open it.
3. If this is your first sprite grab the eyedropper tool (under eraser) and right click the transparent background (the checkerboard). If you can't see the tools or colors windows go to the Window tab and select it. Then go to the Image tab and select Canvas Size.
4. Input the dimensions of 96 width and 96 height. Make sure the anchor is in the middle.
But if I was doing a back sprite I'd want the anchor at the bottom like so.
5. Voila click ok and see your completed sprite, now save that bad boy!
6. Once you've done your set rename them to the pokemon names if they have't already. I strongly recommend having a national dex reference just to be safe for some of the weird spelling.
1. Grab the sprites you are using and put them all in a separate folder. For the purposes of this tutorial I am doing GSC: 250-300 which is literally just Celebi.
2. With paint.net open in one side drag and drop the file to open it.
3. If this is your first sprite grab the eyedropper tool (under eraser) and right click the transparent background (the checkerboard). If you can't see the tools or colors windows go to the Window tab and select it. Then go to the Image tab and select Canvas Size.
4. Input the dimensions of 96 width and 96 height. Make sure the anchor is in the middle.
But if I was doing a back sprite I'd want the anchor at the bottom like so.
5. Voila click ok and see your completed sprite, now save that bad boy!
6. Once you've done your set rename them to the pokemon names if they have't already. I strongly recommend having a national dex reference just to be safe for some of the weird spelling.
If you have any questions before helping out do feel free to ask them here!
